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The police chief of Cohoes was obliged to admit to past administrations' poor record-retention policies for police discipline. This month marks the...
The decision to keep the Burdett Birth Center open for at least five years is a win for Troy and for everyone who spoke out against a plan that would...
Bear Mountain Bridge over the Hudson River. Credit: Getty Images. Back in 2006, the Competitive Enterprise Institute pushed back against growing...
Troy government has been getting along just fine in its cobbled together home front in the Hedley Park Place Building on River Street. Troy Mayor...
Letters to the editor can be submitted by sending an email to tuletters@timesunion.com or completing this form. See our guidelines on letters. John...
Coco Gauff in action against Dayana Yastremska of Ukraine on Day Five during their 3rd Round match during Day Five of the Mutua Madrid Open at La Caja...
Credit: Getty Images. As with pretty much anything in which humans are involved, our elections aren’t always as perfect as we’d like them to be....
Tulips are seen in front of the New York State Capitol ahead of the annual Tulip Festival on Friday, May 6, 2022 in Albany, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren/Times...
Times Union photo illustration by Jeff Boyer. Richard W. Crist, Rensselaer County's director of operations, is one of a group of county officials who...
Great Meadow Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Washington County, is seen in this March 25, 2010, file photo. New York's prison...
Credit: Getty Images. Whatever your feelings are concerning the war in Gaza, a U.S. senator’s call for vigilante attacks on certain demonstrators...
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Abortion rights supporters gather outside the Arizona State Capitol in Phoenix on April 17. Here are a few things that happened in the United States...
Credit: Getty Images If you’re looking for a heartening development on the eve of Earth Day 2024, here’s one: A new federal rule will require the...
Credit: Getty Images. Two years ago, New York took the entirely appropriate step of requiring private schools to show that they are teaching children...
State leaders are concerned about a rising tide of toll evasion on New York roads. At the start of the year, the cost of tolls on the New York Thruway...
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Albany County District Attorney David Soares with his wife and their two children at an April 6 news conference at a vacant lot on Second Street in...
Former President Donald Trump arrives for a rally on April 2, 2024, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) Barring some...
Credit: Getty Images. While short-term rental services like Airbnb may be a boon for travelers looking for cheaper digs and for homeowners hoping to...
Credit: Getty Images. New York’s licensed cannabis retailers saw about $150 million in sales last year. Sounds like a nice little nascent industry,...
Diane Reiner, 77, who is called "jajja," which means grandmother in the Ugandan language, on a recent trip to meet Ronnie Sseruyange, 37, who oversees...
Exterior of the New York state Capitol on Wednesday, April 7, 2021, in Albany. State Sen. James Skoufis. Here they go again: Democrats in the...
People inspect the site where seven World Central Kitchen workers were killed in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, on April 1. The Israeli military admitted...
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Credit: Getty Images. Time was, our species had plenty of reasons to look to the sky. We timed our planting and harvesting on the cycles of the moon....
Credit: Getty Images. Seven years ago, New York was an outlier in handling young offenders. Besides North Carolina, this was the only state that...
The Stretch Limousine Passenger Safety Task Force empaneled after a 2018 limo crash that killed 20 in Schoharie should be extended through 2025. In...
View of the Norlite aggregate and incinerator plant in Cohoes on March 19, 2021. The kilns are going cold at Norlite. And though that may help Cohoes...
Saratoga County Conservative Party Chairman David Buchyn conducted a hearing at the La Quinta Inn hotel in Clifton Park on Saturday to confront dozens...
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Credit: Getty Images. The fossil fuel industry and its defenders like to argue that government investment in clean energy gives solar, wind and other...
Sue Trevellyan, left, and Angela Fedullo pose for a selfie at the NCAA women's basketball tournament in Albany on Saturday, March 30, 2024, at MVP...
Credit: Getty Images. To immigrate is an experience many of us can only imagine. Even in the best and most comfortable of circumstances, restarting...
Credit: Getty Images. New York’s budget is going to be late, at least by a few days, in no small measure because of a fight over Medicaid, the...
"Illicit Cannabis Seized" sign is seen on the glass facade of a small store in Harlem on Dec. 5, 2023. Just when you thought things couldn't get worse...
Albany County Public Defender and former Albany City Court and County Court Judge Stephen Herrick has served breakfast each Wednesday to a large group...
Credit: Getty Images. U.S. Rep. Mike Gallagher, center, in June 2018. The Wisconsin Republican is resigning his seat next month. (AP Photo/J. Scott...
News that a $500,000 contract is being offered for a one-year term to help NYSERDA spin a “positive narrative” around the state’s shift to...
(Will Waldron/Times Union) The economic challenges facing traditional journalism are not exactly breaking news. While those headwinds have been...
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Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally at the Dayton International Airport on March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio. Say this for Donald...
Credit: Getty Images. One of the more deceptive tools in the lobbying toolbox is the creation of supposed citizens groups to make it appear that...
Albany Police Chief Eric Hawkins in April 2021, displaying police footage of an altercation between police and protesters at the city's South Station....
Restored image of two orphaned children in Vietnam from Bernie Kolenberg's "Faces of Vietnam" 1965 exhibit in Albany. William Kennedy, left,...